Improvement in tobacco-stains



v UNITE STATES PATENT .QFFIoE.

ELKANAH W. DIOKERSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

lMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-STAINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,095, dated January 11, 1876; application filed September 21, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELKANAH WHITTIER DIOKERSON, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Stain and Tan for Leaf-Tobacco; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it.

The object of my invention is to provide a. leaf-tobacco stain and tan that will deepen the color and kill white veins in the leaf, and by which I can produce shades, varying from a pinkish yellow tov black.

A further object of myinvcntion is to pro vide means for dissolving the gum in unsweated leaf-tobacco, and to cause leaf, that would not otherwise do so, hold the fire.

My invention consists ofa powder compon nded as follows: One ounce, orp "rt, of black liquorice; two ounces, or parts, of gum catechn; two ounces, or parts, of extract of log wood; to be varied for shade by white-oak bark.

The foregoing ingredients are taken.in a solid form and reduced to a coarse powder by grinding. v

Directions for applying the powder: First, prepare this stain and tan one day before using it, as it gains strength by contact with the air. Second, take two ounces of this powder to each gallon of soft water, tie it in a just before it is hours. Fourth, next rinse out in cold water all the liquid not absorbed, then shake open the hands and dry at once, (if it be thin leaf,)

and then prepare it for repacking or stripping.

Fifth, a light second dripping is sometimes required.- Sixth, often passing a damp sponge or a soft brush over the surface of the leaf,

very much.

In drying weather it takes from three to five days before the leafis ready for use. This preparation is not injurious, but decidedly healthful. It will sweeten bitter leaf, and will make any leaf burn a white ash. It improves the color and burning qualities of leaf-tobacco. It is intended not only for repacking' leaf, but to be used, instead of water, in the casing of leaf by the manufacturers.-

Light thin leaf needs one treatment, goodbodied leaf a difl'erent one, and dry or yellow leaf still another.

The strength of the SOllllllOlll, and the length of time for the leaf to remain in it, in-

ELKANAH w. DIGKERSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. U. SHELMERDINE, M. DANL. CoNNoLLY.

stripped, improves its color 

